FirstLight officially closed its acquisition of 186 Communications, its fourth fiber-related buy of the year, in keeping with the trend of telecom providers scooping up fiber assets to build out their footprints.

"What we're trying to do is create those differentiated services, like Solution Support or Business Critical Services, that gives partners the next-level of capabilities," said Cisco services leader Joe Cozzolino.

Forbush became Zayo's channel chief in April, following Zayo's acquisition of his previous employer, Electric Lightwave, in November 2016. Now Forbush is ready to go from service provider to master agent.

AT&T unveiled its WWLAN Back-up Plan, a solution to help wireline-focused partners sell a simple, self-contained mobility service. The carrier also made its FlexWare platform and AT&T Collaborate service available for sale through its partners this week at the Partner Exchange Summit.

'ThousandEyes is not a point solution; it's a platform. It's an ecosystem that you can plug into to have a good experience in a cloud-first, internet-first world,' says Mohit Lad, CEO of the network intelligence software company.

Comport Healthcare Solutions President Jack Margossian says Aruba's software has completely changed the networking landscape and put his company ahead of a pack of "me-too" legacy networking competitors.

Fresh off of a slew of asset acquisitions, Extreme Networks is getting ready to combine the best of each vendor's partner program to create a unified program for its partners, the company said during The Channel Company's Best of Breed (BoB) conference.

T-Mobile, Sprint and Vonage topped September's telecom news cycle with new executive appointments, channel leadership changes, new offerings and more merger rumors. Here are six things from the past month that solution providers should know.

David Helfer, senior vice president of worldwide partners and cloud sales, speaks with CRN about F5's strategic investment in Amazon Web Services and what partners need to know about its public cloud strategy.

Following the news that AT&T's longtime channel leader Brooks McCorcle is retiring, the carrier announced a channel program realignment. CRN sat down with the carrier's channel leaders to learn more about what the restructured channel program and strategy means for partners.

CRN's 2018 MSP 500
With the fast-growing -- and fast-changing -- MSP landscape in mind, CRN has again assembled the MSP 500, an annual list that recognizes North American solution providers with cutting-edge approaches to managed services.